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“...off-line—a staggering blow for a country already contend-
ing with year-round load shedding, and needing reliable
energy to fuel its reconstruction efforts.
Given the country’s deep-seated aspirations for hydro-
power as a future pathway to development (Butler 2016;
Lord 2014; Rest 2012), analyses of the damage to existing
plants and those under construction quickly emerged.
The Nepal Electricity Authority reported that 150MW
(megawatts) of electricity generation had been lost in
the earthquake from a national portfolio of just 774MW
(Pangeni 2015), and that this loss represented an ‘acutely
small level of...capacity in a nation of 28 million people’
(Schneider 2015). Furthermore, several projects in devel-
opment were set back months and years due to road
devastation, project repair needs, and construction mate-
rials being diverted to other post-quake reconstruction
needs, such as shelters, roads, hospitals, and schools. “This
is a huge setback to Nepal,” Ram Siwakoti from Chilime
Hydropower...”
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